Column: Electoral college system is a bad way to pick a president
1 month ago

Column: Electoral college system is a bad way to pick a president

LA Times  

Before this year’s presidential election slips into gloomy history, we should pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic vote-counting system called the electoral college. If Donald Trump had to win, it’s good that he prevailed in both the archaic electoral college and the national popular vote. There are two bad things about our electoral college system: It’s possible for the major party candidate who’s least favored by the nation’s voters to be elected president, as we’ve seen. Neither would purple states because they enjoy all the attention and campaign bucks as “battlegrounds.” But there’s a way to reform the system and still retain the electoral college. I didn’t do all the math, but it’s a safe assumption that Trump still would have won the electoral college vote under a proportional allocation system.

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Associated Press  

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